"A beautiful side effect of making things is you start to look around
and wonder, ‘how did they do that?’; you learn to see, analyze, and
appreciate different approaches, well-made things, and clever solutions."
– Lili Cheng
2 thoughts on “metacool Thought of the Day”
metacool Thought of the Day
Today’s thought comes via Russell Davie’s we’re as disappointed as you are blog. It’s brilliant:
– Philippe Starck
metacool Thought of the Day pagani
"There are millions of cars being built around the world, but so many without even a little soul – we have some of that in this car. It’s what mind and hearts and hands can do."
– Horacio Pagani
metacool Thought of the Week GODIN
"Organizations are not very good at creating the remarkable. People are.
And after a person creates a purple cow, the organization milks that
cow, relentlessly, for as long as it can. If the people in the
organization don’t have the guts and the energy to ready a new cow,
then the organization’s days are numbered."
Yes, but as Mark Twain remarked about how his riverboat experience affected his view of any river – it caused him to dissect it into shallows, currents, bars and removed the romance – that side-effect cuts two ways. Sometimes its nice not to know how the magic trick works.
Yeah, I’ve stopped learning about how movies are made so that I can just sit back and enjoy them.